I spent some of the weekend in the company of doctors. The subject of some conversation was pretty predictable. One doctor present said his hospital
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Brexit or not we’re going to have migration. It’s time the government said so
Theresa May appeared to suggest yesterday that leaving the EU single market was a price worth paying for migration control. I am not at this
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Why use Twitter?
Twitter doesn’t always get a good press amongst commentators on this blog. It is my impression that it is, in general, less in favour now
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Social justice
Today’s NHS tweets
I have not used Twitter much of late. For some reason I woke up in the mood to do so today. These are some of
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A Nobel Prize in Accounting?
A weird thought came to me this morning. Why isn’t there a Nobel Prize in Accounting? And then it occurred to me that this was
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A lesson to economists: value is not made by discounting the future. Value is made by doing the right thing now.
Andy Haldane, the outstanding chief economist of the Bank of England, has admitted that the Bank got its Brexit forecasts wrong. As he has put
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This morning’s reasons for thinking 2017 may be the year recession returns
There is an air of gloom in the papers. I am in the mood for preparing lists. This is my summary of this mornings reasons
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Why universal basic income is seizing the agenda
There are reports that a universal basic income trial is being planned in Scotland. I wrote this for the iPaper last June. It seems worth
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